JTF GTMO Detainee Assessment

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1 se cret/i NOFORNi /20310s0s DEPARTMENT OF DEF'ENSE JOINT TASK TORCf, GUA}TTANAMO GUAITTANAMO BAY. CUBA APO AE JTFGTMO-CC 05 May2006 MEMORANDUM FOR Commander, United Stafes Southem Commaad 351 I NW 9lst Ave'rrug Memi, P SUBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for 1. (S//NF) Personal Information: JTF GTMO Detainee Assessment o JDMSATIDRC Reference Name: Jabd AI Rahman Maath ThatuAlUmad o Aliases and Current/True Name: AM Al Rahman Maadha Dhafr Al llilala Al Umari: Abu Anas Al Nijiris r Place of Birth: Al Taif. Saudi Arabia (SA) r DateofBirth: 17 Apri1l973 r Citizenship: Saudi Arabia r Intemme,nt Serial Number (ISN): US9SA DP 2. (FOUO) Health: Detainee is in good healtl. He has chronic Hepatitis B. He has chronic low back pain and cbronic heartbum- He has a history of bursitis of the right shoulder. He ha.s a history of intermittent musculoskeletal pain involving the knees bilaterally, the left foot and the left a*le. He has participated in hunger shikes in July 2003 and July (S//NF) JTF GTMO Assessment: a. (S) Recommendation: JTF GTMO recommends this detainee for Continued Dete,ntion Under DoD Control (CD). JTF GTMO previously assessedetainee as Retain in DoD on 01 August b, (S//NF) Executive Summary: Detainee is assessed to be a member of Al-Qaida with a probable leadership role. Detainee has admitted ties to many Al-Qaiila leaders, locations of CLASSIIIED BY: MULTIPLE SOIIRCES REASON: E.O SECTION 1.5(C) DECLASSIFY ON: s E c RE T // NOFORN //

2 s E c R E T i / NOFORN i / 20310s05 SUBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for conf]icl and had knowledge ofthe l l September 2001 attacks before their execution. Detainee's recruiter was probably one of the 11 Septembe 2001 hijackers. Detainee has extensive military trainiry tbal added to his worth in the Al-Qaida organization, JTF GTMO detemined this detainee to be: r r r A HIGH risk, as he is likely to pose a tireat to the US, its interests and allies A HIGH tlreat from a dete,ntion perspective. Of MEDIUM intelligence value. 4. (S/NF) Detalnee's Account of Events: The following section is based, unless otherwise lndicated, on detainee's own accrount, These statements are included without conslderation of veracity, accuracy, or reliabllltlr. a, (S//NF) Prior History: Detainee served approximately nine years as an enlisted member in the Saudi military. He was trained in vaious IN made weqong to include the.5g calibermachine gr:n, the M60 machine gun, automatic rifles, the TOW anti-tank missile, and tle Dragon anti-tank missile. He left the military in 2000.' Detainee claimed his brother was a colonel in the Saudi military,' which was confirmed by the Sautli govemment.' b, (S//NF) Recruitment and Travel: Detainee was influe,nced to participate in jihad by several factors. Firs! after he performed the Hajj (the Islamic pilgrimage), detainee frequented the King Fahd Bin Sultan Mosque in Tabouk, SA. One of the scholars was Abu Abbas Al Janoubi (variant: labas). Al Janoubi often spoke aboutjihad in Afehanistan and advised detainee to go. Janoubi gave detainee the name and telephone number ofyahia Al Faoud (variant Foud) aka Suhaib in Jordan as a point of contact to assist detainee in his travel to Afghanistan." Secon4 detainee read that if he fouglt for Islam then he would go to heave,n. Third" Sheikh Ali AI Huthayer, Sheikh Hamud AI Auqla and AMullal Bin Jibreen are three weil-known retgious leaders in Saudi Arabia that were also very influential in helping detainee make the decision forjihad.5 Detainee obrained a passport,6 and in ' oz gteuoz, IIR , I I-FEB-2002, KB " 0@199 SIR 0,1-APR TD-11+zl5qt-02 o m , I-FEB-2002, JAN02 " JAN02 6 oootgg loz glaroz 2 s E c RE T //NOFORN //

3 s E c R E T i / NOFORN i / SUBJECT: Recommendafion for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for approximately January 2001, detainee taveled by taxi to Jordan.t Detaioee left by land from Jordan to Damascus, Syria then by plane to Tehran, kan, Once detainee crossed the Afghanistan border, he met with an Afghan Taliban commander in Herat AF, named Mullah Abdoun Al Hana:r. A1 Hanan wrote a small note and gave it to detainee and told detainee to go to the Jihad School in Kandahar, AF, and to give the note to the people there.8 c. (s/nf) Trainlng and Activities: Detainee traveled by taxi to the Jihad School in Kandahar, AF, located next to a mosque and Mullah Mohammad Omar's former office. Detainee gave the school officials the note from Al Hanan- Three men questioned detainee as to his motive for being in Afghanistan and to find out if he was a spy. The men also took detainee's passport and other biographical information.' The school officials asked him ifhe needed any training. Detainee declined and advised the officials that he had already received haining inthe Suodi -ilitury.to Detainee stayed in Kanrlahar for two days.ll Detainee traveled by taxi to the Karte Barwan (variant Kart Parwan) guesthouse in Kabul where Abu A1 Fidaa Al Ye,meni was in charge. Detainee gave his belongings, passport and 7,000 Saudi riyals to A1 Fidaa and stayed at the gues-thouse for two days before leaving to go to the front lines to fight against Masoud's troops." Detainee was a.the Omar Seif Center (variant Umar Sayf) at the front line ofkabul on 31 January 2001, five to six days afer he entered Afghanistan. " Abd Al Hadi A1 haqi was in charge of the troops, but detainee never saw him. Next in charge was Abd A1 Salam Al Hadrami, followed by Al Qaqaa Al Tabouki. ra Detainee stayed on the front line until it started to break approximately six months later. The group detainee was fighting with dispeae4 some of the men we,nt north to Konduz, AF, and some went south to Bagram. Detainee was with people that we,nto Bagram in pickup trucks. '' Detainee did not recall how long he stayed at tle Bagram front line, but he was there when the US began to bomb Kabul. Abu Ubaydah Al-Masri (varianl Musree), whom detainee believed to be an A1 Qaida me,mber, was detainee's commander at Bagram. Detainee fled Bagram when the Taliban began to withdraw. Hejoined a group of17-18 other individuals who were retrea:ting in the direction of Pakistan. They passed numerous groups ofarabs who told them thai they were consolidating forces at Tora Bora" where there 1 m-yq-oozgoqz,ilr , FEB-2002, Arslyst Not': This atare fatl$ close to th saudi governmentos records ofcletainee leaving Saudi Arabia to Jordon on 16 Decenxber 2000 as repoftd in TD L 42 nd TD -3 I +27 s I tn o ora ozso o FEB-2004 TD-3 rmz96oz,000r gjanoz ' JAN02. IIR FEB-2002 t JAN02, ADalyst Note: Due to detainee's d.eclination oftraining, the rnen who questionedetainee mrst not have kept detainee's passport, because detainee later gave his passport to the guestloure ma.nager in Kabul. " TD G02 '2 IR , I I-FEB-2002, JAN02, TD -3tM29642, JAN02 t4 m , I I-FEB-2002, TD-3 L t'ooo JAN02 3 s E c RE T // NOFORN i /

4 se cret/i NOFORNi /20310s0s SUBJBCT: Recommenda.tion for Continued Detention Under DoD Conhol (CD) for was an estimated 4,500 fighters. The group traveled to a mountain name Malawa in Tora Bora, where detainee stayed for approximately eighteen days. For the fint eight days, his conmunder was Abu Al Rahman ljtaazi (vmianl Tazee), a Yeme,rri. Detainee relocated to a higher positiry on the mountain after eigbt days and his new commander became Abu Omar, a Saudi.'o Detainee saw Usama Bin Iaden (JBL) on two occasions during his stay in Tora Bora. Detainee was at his nerr commander's post when he saw UBL on a mule sunounded by guards. The second sighting occurred on approximately the 19th day of Ramadan (5 December 2001). Detainee saw UBL meeting with Al Qaida spokesmaa Sheikh Suleyman Bil Gaith." 5. (S//NF) Capture Information: a. (S/A{F) After eighteen days in Tora Bor4 detainee joined a group of approximately twenty people thal decided to flee to the Pakistani border. The groupo whose se,nior me,mber was Abu Omar, consisted of Arab fighers and one Afghmi guide. The Afghani guide told the group thlf he had made arangem rds with villagers across the Pakistani border to assisthe group with their escape if they sr:rmdered their weqons. ^The gmup sp rf approximaf ly fve clays qralking from Tora Bora to the Pakistani border.'o The group crossed from the Nangarhar region ofthe Afghani-Pakistani border on 14 December The group felt secure with their Pakistani host who convinced the,m to surender their weapons. The host then informed the group that the Pakistani forces were aware oftheir presence and they had to relocaxe. The group galhered in a mosque where they were immediately surrounded by Pakistani forces and hauled away in large trucks. An individual attacked a guard leading to a struggle in which six Pakistani guards were killed and some prisoners were able to escape.'' - Detainee v/as tumed over to US forces on 31 December 20bl in Kohal PK.20 b. (S) Property Held: r r r A cassette tlpe which discusses UBL 3" X 4'piece ofpaper with names and phone numbers Green-bound notebook wittr drawings and texf I " JAN02,m4t A2 " JAN02 t' JAN02.TD-3L te lln T az a To tAnalyst Note XIF GTMO is currently exploiting the noteboo( however, it is "''cerm.in if detainee had custody of it when he was captrned- A cursory scan of the notebook revealed that it containedetailed information on radio wave prqragation" circrrit design, antema orienhtion, and other radio comunication specific theory and construcl There Ipas no mention ofexolosives IED constructionoted in the book. See SIR I8-APR Wh rx rl.l s E c R E T //NOFORN/i 20310s0s

5 s E c RE T // NOFORN // SIJBJE0T: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for o 6130 Pakistani rupees c. (S) Transferred to JTF GTMO: 09February2002 d, (S/NF) Reasons for Transfer to JTF GTMO: To provide informalion on tle following:. The six Taliban units located North of Kabul, AF, and their specialties/weapons. AII locations were 65 kilometers north of Kabul at the Taliban front lines. The six units were Omar Saii Tulha Al-Nimi, Marwaru Khali4 and Said centers. 6, (S//NF) Evaluation Of Detainee's Account: Detainee's ge,neral timeline appears plausible. LIe provided several reports laying out his general placemgnt and access. Although there are gaps in his accoun! detainee has been fairly consistent with the information he has provided- Two areas of possible deception include the conditions under which he left the Saudi miligry aad p1i6r travel to Checbnya-" 7, (S//NF) Detalnee Threat: a. (S) Assessment: It is assessed the detainee poses a HIGH risk, as he is likely to pose a threat to the US, its interests and a11ies. b, (S//NF) Reasons for Continued Detention: Detainee is assessed to be an Al-Qaicla menrber with knowledge about and connections to many high-level Al-Qaida menrben and operations. Detainee fought on the front lines and in Tora Bora-. (S/NF) Detainee had prior knowledge of attacks on tle US and was regruited by one of the 11 September 2001 hijackers." Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Rabman Al Badddab ISN US9SA DP (5A-264), regorted that detainee had a lot of infomration about operations in Afghanistal (NFf.^ asked about the scrap ofpaper tlat appears to be a duty rostgr deainee agreed to provide information after his medical concerns wsre addressed- See SIR 23-MAR-2006 and SIR 04-APR-2006, Shordy thereafter, deainee adqrnent'ly alenied that he ever had possession ofthese items. See SIR I8-APR In December 2002, an OGA interviewer not d tbat detainse's poclet litter consist d ofseveral thousad rup e$ but did not include any mentiou ofa notebook, a cassette bpe, or a piece ofpapsr. See TD-314{0296{2. - Analw Note: The Saudi Ministry Oflnterior, G m ral Direclorate oflnvestigations (Mabalith) noted that detain e \ras on a gov rdment rratch list due to prior tavel to Checbnya. Debinee has nevsr r ported such travel. SaeTDJI a 'n oootgg Kg oz-ts-zooz m. 6 o34 oo s E c RE T // NOFORN i i

6 s E c RE T // NOFORN // s JTFGTMO-CC SIIBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantana:no Detainee, ISN: US9SA DP (S) o (S/AJF) Approximately three weeks prior to the 11 Septenrber 2001 te,rrorist aftacks, detainee claimed, while in Kabul, he heard from Abu Al Bara'a Al-Hijazi, a UBL supporter, that Al-Qaida operative Abu Hafs Al Mauratani had a disagreement with UBL rogmding the upcoming attacks against the US. Detainee commented that most ofthe Arab brothers on the front line and in guesthouses knevr that an attack was to take place, but were unaware of nature of the action.2s o (S/A.{F) Detainee revealed that he had information on a planned At-Qaida terrorist attack againsthe US or its interests in Yemen. Detainee stated that he received information on the planned attack from a Yeneni natronal detainee in Afghanisbn nsmed "Salman'" around I February Salman told detainee that his brother Furqan was present in Yemen and intended to cary out a terrorist operation around 12 February 2002,'o and was on his way to take pad in operations against the US.'' (Analyst Note: Salman is Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii, ISN US9YM DP 0M-508). YM-508's brother is Furqan aka Fawaz Yahya A1 Rabeii aka Furgan Al Tajiki aka Furqan the Chechen aka Faris Al Baraq aka Salem Al Farhan aka Musharraf aka Sa'id aka Jamal aka Khafed). Detainee identified a photograph as Furqan. As of 2003, Furqan was being held and interrogated by the Yemeni sovemment.'o o (S/,\ig Detainee reported that Abu Abbas Al Janoubi (probably misspelled as Labas vice Abbas), advised detainee to go to Afgbanistan forjihad. He provided namss arrd coatact infomration." Abu Abbas Al Janoubis an alias for Abdul Aziz A1 Omari, a hijacker on Americaq Airlines Flight I 1, which crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Cel:ter.'". (S/AIF) Detainee admitted having ties to the following higb-level membsrs of A1 Qaida (Amfyst Note: It is assessed that detainee's vague admissions only mask the more significant information he probably has on these individuals): o (S/NF) Usama Bin ladon. Detainee admitted he saw UBL on at least two occasions while in Tora Bora-3l r (S) 5.{-264 overheard detainee saythat he knew IIBL and other members of the Al Qaida hierarchy in Afghanistan-" ' FE IIR IR , FEB-2002, TD-314/ , v/ab:.77-02,'rd-3t4rc916go3,td- 3L4B63L+03 ' 000r99.KB , IrR , IIR am4l4be3rq43 * 'rn4v/og42s-oz, JAN02, IIR * m zz504,m4vt2gL8ga2,TD-314t39777-oz,Tn M" IvAx JAN02, rir , l I-FEB-2002, IIR oz " IIR s E c RE T // NOFORN //

7 s E c RE T // NOFORN // JTF GTMO.CC SUBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for r (S) Yaseen Muhammad Saleh Mazeeb Basardalu ISN US9YM DP 6fU-ZSZ;, Uelieuedetainee worked for llbl.33 o (S/NF) Sheitr*r SuleynanAbu Gaith. Abu Gaith was known as UBL's spokeman n ho tried to convince detainee and others to stay and continue to fight in Tora Bora-'* o (S) Khatlad Bin Attash aka Silver. Detainee saw him in Kabul and near Jalalabad. Khallad was in charge of supplies. Detainee reported thal Khallad was a friend of Furqan, YM-508's brother." o (S/A[F) Abu Hafs A1 Mauralani. Detainee saw Abu Hafs ar least twice at the religious center in Kandahar, where Abu Hafs gave lectures.36 o (S) Muhammad Atef aka Abu Hafs. Detainee reported thal Atef, an Egyptian national and the military chief of Al-Qaida visited the toops on the Kabul front lines.37 o (S) Ibn Sheikh Al Libi. Detainee saw Al Libi at a command center in Tora Bora-ft Detainee was also anested with Al Libi in Pakistan.3e o (S) Senior Al-Qaida facilitator and operational plaqler Khalid Sheikh Muhammad (KSM). Detainee saw KSM in Tora Bora-"' r (S/A.{F) Detainee was listed as a "captured brother" on a document found on a 20-gieabyte hard drive associated with LSM'41 o (S) Salim Almed Selim Hamdan, ISN US9YM (YI\4-149), was UBL's driver and is currenfly^being tried by military commission. pgtainee 6ef him at s suesthouse in Kabul."' i 1S1 ffamza af Ghamdi. Al Ghamdi was a UBL bodyguard and in charge ofthe guesthouse in Kabul.a3. (S/A.{F) The following are high-level Al Qaida me,mbers who recoenized detainee: 33 ooo252 FM4o 20-MAR-2004 t 000tg910219JaN02, JAN02,IIR , I I-FEB-2002, m ozq3 02 " R IrR FEB-2002 * nr : l l-ffb t ooo199 o 3029JAN02 ooor99 3oz gjanoz tn te..7 z3g * ooot gjenoz n' m3l , Analyst Note: Detainee's name was listed as 'Abd Al-Rahman Ma'adhs Al-'Ami; his alias was listed as Abu Anas Nayjid. The document identiffes him as a Saudi national and includes the associaied phone numbers ard A a2 000t99302 ztrsb2ooz m o2,nr , l I-FEB-2002 a3 000t99 3oz ztrssz0o2,iir , EEB-2002, Analyst Note: Debinee laier ctaimed he did not recognize the name or a photo of Ilamza Al Gbamdi. See SIR 02-FEB-2005 and SIR 01- APR I s E c RE T //NOX'ORN//

8 s E c RE T //NOFORN // 20310s0s JTFGTMO-CC SUBJECT: Recomme,ndalion for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for o (S/,itfF) Abu Faraj A1 Libi, recognized detainee's photo who he referred to as Abu Anas. He saw detainee twice in 2000: first the Kabul guesthouse nm by Abu Faraj, and later in a guesthouse in Kandahar. Abu Faraj copamented that detainee appeared to be a new mujahid in Afghanistan for training.* o (S/A.{F) Ammar Al Baluchi aka Abd Al Aziz Ali identified Abu Anas Nayjiri (detainee's alias) as a driver at Khallad Bin Attash and Ha:nza Al Ghamdi's camp in Tora Bora- Detainee also drove from Tora Bora to Jalalabad to pick up supplie and tood. - o (S) Confrmed Al-Qaida facittaror Abdu Ali Al Haj Sharqawi, ISN PK9YM DP (YM-1457), photo-identified detainee as an individual who he probably. --. "L6 saw rn l(abul. '- r (S/A[F) Detainee repo_rted he received a weapon and fought with UBL's 55d Arab Brigade ar the front lines,*' under the leadership of Abu Salam AI Hadrami* and Abu Ubaydah Al Masri, who detainee reported w re A1 Qaida members.ae o (S/,NF) Detrin e-e^ pleyided support for and participated in hostilities against coalition forces in Tora Bora-)' Detainee reported that Sheilfi Suleym.an Abu Gaith tried to convince detainee to "continue the fight" in Tora Bora'' o (S/NF) Detainee reported thal Humud Datrfiil Humud Said Al-Jada& ISN US9SA DP (SA-230), was his commander in Tora Bora.52 SA-230 fought in Chechnya and was identified as involved in the fighting in Tora Bora-s3 o (S) YM-252 reported that he saw detainee at the supply camp at Tora Bora-sa (Analyst Note: This corroborajes Ammar Al Baluchi's reporting that detainee drove from Tora Bora to Jalalabad to pick up supplies, reported above.) Detainee inadvertently confirmed this point when he reported he knew that Khallad Bin Attash was in charge ofbringing all the supplies from Jalalabad to Tora Bora-ss. (S/lt{F) Detainee stayed at and has knowledge ofal-qaida suppoded guesthouses and facilities. 'TD:Jt443ztl45 n5 m-: IR 6 o3a oo5g os 47 ooo199 3oz 9JeNo2 * 000t99 :02 ztrsgu aolm4t " JAN02,TD a2 $ ooor99 :oz glano2,td-3l4ioz96o2 tt ooot lgjanoz 52 m oz8g 02. IIR TD314/ t R r IR FEB s E c RE T // NOFORN //

9 s E c R E T / / NOFORN / / SUBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for o (S) Karte Barwan guesthouse in Kabul. Detainee stayed at this guesthouse where he wrote up a vrill prior to going to the front tines.l6 o (S) Guesthouse #10 in Kabu1. Detainee reported tbat it was a UBL facility that was previously the residence of the Saudi ambassador to AfgbanistaL YM-149, UBL's driver, met detainee at this guesthouse.st o (S) Al Farouq training c,mj'. Detainee reported he did not receive taining here, altho',eh he wanted to.'o Detainee lnew thal Al Farouq belonged to Al Qaida and that Abu Moharnmad Al Masri w-as the camp gommandsjo and Juhaina Hamza Al Adani, and Farqan were trainers." o (S) Detainee also stayed the Al Ansar guesthouse in Kandahar.o Detainee reported he visited Kandahar at least four times: once by land and tbree times by plane.ot r (S) A Senior Saudi national security official identified detainee as a sergeant in the Royal Saudi Anny who had gone AWOL..' The Saudi Armed Forces reported three instances in which serving members of the Saudi Amred Forces have been suspected or directly implicared in AQ pla::ning for operations against US interests, pointing to a level of support for UBL and A1 Qaida within the Saudi armed forces.o'. (S/NF) Other Al-Qaida related inforrnation: o (S)_ Detainee was able to provide information on insider disagreements on how Al Wafas should be operated as well as their conflicts with Al-Qaidao' (Analyst Note: It is only due to detainee's involvement with Al-Qaida that he would know the imerconflicts that Al-Wafa had with Al-Qaida) r (S/NF) Detainee may have aided the Al-Qaida propaganda machine by working in the Kandahar media center. o (S) YM-252 related that detainee operated the media center in Kandahar, AF and would make movies and pictures for Al-Qaida According to YM-252, detanee made s oo0i99 loz zorsbz002, JAN02, tfeb2ooz, w a2s06, I-FEB' 2002 t' ooor tF&Bzooz * SIAN02, Analyst Note: Detainee's lack ofal-farouq taining is conoborated by elechonic media recovered dr:ring a raid on an Al-Qaida safe house in Ra*ralpindi, PK on I March See TD fl3. "' IIR r t-feb-2002 t [R u-feb m zs t 1-FEB-2002 t m ga 02, Anal,st Noie: This reporting codlicts with detainee's reported lurry sum payment upon leaving the Saudi military, presumably under honorable conditiors. S*TD-3I , * rrr 6 E s Analyst Note: Al Wafa is an trct Tier 2 NGO comterterrorism taiget. NGO Tier 2 targsb ba.l'e demonstraled the iutent and willingness!o suppon tsrorist oryarizations willing to a&ck US penons or ioterests. o m. o ol+ ozs: of 9 s E c RE T //NOFORN /i

10 s E c RE T // NOFORN // 20310s0s JTFGTMO-CC SUBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Contol (CD) for a movie of the USS Cole bombing and tle I 1 Septenrber 2001 ajtacks. YM-252 believed that detainee worked for tlbl.* r (S/A.[F) Ifuown Al-Qaida facittator Moulana Gulam Rabbani, ISN US9PK- recognized a photo ofdetainee but could not remember his name. PK-1460 claimed he saw detainee tlree or four times at the Kandahar media office. PK-1460 said he dicln't know anything about him or hig responsibilities, but did remember seeing detainee practicing karate.o' o (S/A.{F) Detainee has denied any role in the Al-Qaida propaganda effort. He higblighted his middle school education and claimed that another detainee with the same ftme was reqlonsible for the videos.tr r (S/AIF) Ali Hamza Almed Suleiman Al Bahlul, ISN US9YM DP (Yt{-039), admittedly workd directly for UBL providing technical support for disseminating Al-Qaida's call forjihad, and specifically admitted 19 producing the USS Cole aftack video at the Al-Qaida media center in Kandahar.uo YM-039's kunya is also Abu Anas. (Analyst Note: This is possibly a case ofmistaken identity. While the presence of detainee and YM-039 at the media ce,nte! would not have necessarily been mutually exclusive, YM-039 claimed that he worked alone.7o YM-252 never admitted direct access to the media center, but rath r claimed he had heard thax an Abu Anas was involved with Al-Qaida propaganda efforts.71) r (S/A.{F) Confirmed Al-Qaida facilitator Abdu Ali A1 Hajj Sharqawi, ISN PK9YM DP (YM-1457) provided a detailed identification of YM-039 as the individual rcsponsible for the media center in Kandahar. During the same interview, YM-1457 recognized a photo ofdetainee, but denied ever seeing him in Kandahar or at the media center. " (Analyst Note: This suggests that any role detainee played in the media committee was minor.) c. (FOUO) Detainee's Conduct: The detainee is assessed as a HIGH tlreat from a detention pe,rspective. The detainee's overall behaviel has ls n 1e1-compliant and hostile to the guard force a:rd staff. The detainee currently has 62 Reports ofdisciplinary Infraction listed in DMS, with the most recent occurring on 6 March 2006 when he and tlree other daainees refused to exit the rec yard after their allotted time because one of the detainees wanted to be retumed to his cell on a stretcher, although he did not require any physical t zu40 20-MAR-2004, IIR , IIR n ootq6ormqo I l-jtrn-2004 s oootgg gn zt-orc-2004, CSRT Transcripr un IB ot IIR to IR 't w M9t R oo s E c RE T // NOFORNi i 20310s05

11 s E c R E T / / NOFORN / / SUBJECT: Recomme,ndation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detaineq ISN: US9SA DP (S) assistance. Other incidents for which the detainee has been disciplined inclucle using provoking words and gestures with the guards, assault, failure xo follow instructiondcamp rules, unauthorized communications, damage to property, and possession ofnon-weapon type contaband. The detainee has 10 Reports of Disciplinary Infraction for assaulq witi the most recent occurring on I October 2005 when he spat on a guard. Other behavior notes show that on 8 January 2004, detainee threw water and spat on guards as they walked the tier and the,n told the sergeant of the guard that he was going to kill him. On 18 June 2004, detainee told a guard tlat he was in the Saudi Arabian Army for nine years then left to join the Taliban and the Asald, a bra:rch of the Taliban. On 3 August 20M, he told a guard that he would slit his throat. At22 October 2004, detainee informed a guard that he was still in the Jihad antl that when he was released he would go back to Afglranistar and take up arms to shoot America:rs. 8. (S//NF) Detainee lntelligence Value Assessment: a, (S) tr5se5sment JTF GTMO determined this detainee is of MEDILM intelligence value. Detainee's most recent interrogafion session occurred on 18 April b, (S//NF) Placement and Accessr Detainee served nine years in the Saudi military and fought on the front lines north of Kabul and during Al-Qaida's fiml stand in Tora Bora Detainee stayed at numerous guesthouses and was afrliajed $/ith organiations that supported Al-Qaida Detainee has significant ties to many senior Al-Qaida me'mbers. c. (S//NF) Intelllgence Assessment: Detainee has provided extensive information on Al-Qaida's leadership, organizational structurg and financial support networks. He likely possessesubstantial intelligence not yet exploited. JTF GTMO is curre, rfly exploiting the 78-page notebook associated $rith detainee's pocket litter, and it may prove to be a source of valuable technical information. d. (S//NF) Areas of Potential Exploitation: r Al-Qai<la leadership to include hierarchy and participation of otler detainees within the network. AI-Qaida loca.tions of conflict and battle, to include supply lines, leadership, and $rarcgy. Al-Qaida facilities, guesthouses, training camps, and media center 11 se c RE T / / NOFORN /i

12 se cre T/i NOFORN/i SUBJECT: Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, lsn: US9SA DP (S) 9. (S) EC Status: Detainee's enemy combatart status v/as reassessed on 07 Octob er 2A04, and he remains an enemy combatant, 12 s E, c RE T /i NOFORN i i 20310s05